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Grand Canyon landslide due to Meteor Crater impact?

Two world-famous Arizona attractions – the Grand Canyon and Meteor Crater Natural Landmark – might share a hidden connection.

Biggest black hole merger ever breaks the universe’s rules

Cutting-edge gravitational wave detectors have found most massive black hole merger yet. Discoverers say it defies our understanding of how black holes form.

Did Webb find a black hole formed by a direct collapse?

Astronomers used data from Webb to probe a black hole that might have formed from direct collapse between two interacting galaxies.

Chimpanzees wear blades of grass in their ears and rears

Some chimpanzees in captivity imitated each other with the seemingly useless activity of putting a blade of grass in their ears and rears.

Interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS might be oldest comet yet

Astronomers have modeled the path of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS through the Milky Way galaxy. They said the comet might be 7 billion years old.

A deep-space navigation 1st, from New Horizons

New Horizons - which visited Pluto - has now performed a deep-space navigation 1st, determining its own position via star images.

Is the Milky Way teeming with satellite galaxies?

Astronomers used new models and simulations of the Milky Way to show our galaxy should have 80 to 100 more satellite galaxies than we've spotted.

Probing the Cosmic Dark Ages from the far side of the moon

Researchers are planning the CosmoCube mission to travel to the far side of the moon, an area of radio silence, to listen to whispers from the cosmic Dark Ages.

Airport radar could signal our existence to aliens

Airport radar leaks electromagnetic energy into space. These signals are strong enough that aliens 200 light-years away would be able to detect our presence.
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Earth could be in a void, Big Bang sound waves suggest

New research says sound waves from the Big Bang support the idea that Earth is in a huge void, which could explain the Hubble tension.